Fascinating Rhythm Reading Jazz in American Writing |
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Author:
| Yaffe, David |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-12357-8 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2005 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $63.00 |
Book Description:
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Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature.
Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature.